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XD That can't be right. You're supposed to feel old once you start drinking lol.

How's life been?

So it's no different from MAL, any other social media, or even /a/. Figures lol, there's no true sweet spot of a community. Still neat you've found some good connections there, though.

Enjoy being 16, man, even if you don't feel any different.

Thanks for the fr man, I see you really like HxH haha

Nice to meet you

You sir, have supreme taste.

His silver tongue always got him into trouble lol. Literaturenerd also has a way with words, but he manages to combine nuance with open honesty in how he can describe how bad a series can be. But yeah, it's just sad how the review section has been treated to combat "troll" reviews, though they still happen, but they're more obvious since they tend to be mantras/copy-pastas, and so they get yeeted much more easily.

I don't have an Instagram, but I didn't know full-length reviews could be put on there. Pretty cool you can reach other fans that way. Is it a bit more chill of an anime community on Instagram?

Also I know it was like a couple weeks ago, but hope you had a happy birthday, man.

Hey also thanks for accepting my friend request! <3

Quick history lesson, then: Back in the day, reviews used to be properly weighted by score, because there were both agree and disagree buttons, which meant reviews will always switch out, so you rarely had the same reviewer on the anime page for years. One Punch Man changed all that because some madlad made a review that pissed off the fanbase and the mods so hard that when it got neg-rated to hell, they actually screwed up the reviews by removing the disagree button to "combat trolls".

The review in question if you're curious before it mysteriously vanishes (maybe):



(Note that the guy who wrote the review actually didn't hate the show, just found it overrated and the fanbase to be the worst of it, as the show had hit the top ten soon as it aired. Was practically the first of its kind to do that and kickstart the trouble you still see to this day with the top anime list.)

Reviews were never the same after this, and that's why it's extremely difficult to get any readers for reviews nowadays. Legit, your Utena review just so happened to be on my homepage checking when I did, and it's since been pushed into the void with everyone else's. Only way you can be noticed these days is if you're immediately on top of a currently-airing anime and have a review ready to go the day it's finished airing so you can push out the "preliminary" early reviews. It's insane, and the mods never fixed this glaring mistake.

So yeah. But ah, I get'cha now. Yeah, when I was ten, TV was the only other way to watch anime, and even then you could still end up missing episodes lol. Yu-Gi-Oh first aired on Kids' WB then, though I was already an avid watcher of Pokémon, Digimon (not Tamers, though), and Cardcaptors. Fox Box's launch that year pretty much permanently cemented it for my brothers and I, we just didn't yet realize it was anime.

You should've been here when One Punch Man first aired. That was such a glorious time even the mods got involved.

Haha thought so XD. Still think it'd be kinda funny if someone were to get mad at the "1" rating 'cause MAL always has that one someone who foams at the mouth over a difference in opinion lol.

Yeah, the movie was from 2002. Really neat watch, think it's the only adaptation where Peco in the beginning at the bridge goes "I CAN FLYYYY!" in which a police officer pumps his fist with a "Yeah! You can do it!" before realizing what he said lol. Actually was kinda of a meme in my Japanese class for that year. But the movie adapted the full story much like the anime did, albeit in less time (of course), and some of the characters weren't as fleshed out like in the anime. Definitely check it out when you can.

The "1" rating honestly confuses me since you've had some things you like about it, I just wasn't sure if the weighted scores equaled out to "1" or if you forgot it was a "5" only to then change your mind? xD Always been under the impression that if it's a "1" no matter what, it's complete garbage and is irredeemable, or is a troll rating ('cause those exist, it is the Internet), and for sure it's not a troll rating with you. But I dunno lol.

Also meant to point it out yesterday but couldn't figure out how to bring it up, but it's really amazing that no one talks about Ping Pong when it's probably one of the greatest sports series out there, for sure. Actually saw the movie many years back before the anime was announced, it's just so good. Wish the manga would come out here.

You have an interesting take on Utena there, sorry it just wasn't for you. But about the final arc coming off as better-written from everything else before it, you might have a point there. In screenwriting (and just writing in general), the writer is supposed to know their beginning and their ending (the moral of the story) first and foremost, and then the middle can be however long you want it to be. It's very possible Ikuhara just had the very beginning and ending in mind for what he wanted, and then made stuff up. Probably why the movie happened for all we know.

Either way, it's a bit refreshing to get something out-of-the-norm for a show like Utena. I like the show for what it is, but sometimes you just don't always want to constantly hear praise, y'know?